PSA is expected to produce its low-cost car in Spain.

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The French manufacturer has chosen its site in Spanish production, with "the cost structure of the lower group," to produce its future entry-level models according to Les Echos published Tuesday.
The Renault Logan has a child. PSA Peugeot Citroën started producing cars at low cost without going to the designation "low cost". Future models of Peugeot's entry level for the time designated by the code names "M3" and "M4", will be produced at the site of Vigo in north-eastern Spain, according to information published by the daily newspaper Les Echos on Tuesday and that the French manufacturer says "quasi-formalized.
Vigo is already the largest production site of the group with 7500 employees and 385,000 vehicles produced in 2009. Opened in 1958, the factory is now the first company in the region. It should be assigned several projects PSA because it is "the site with the cost structure of the lower group," according to sources in the company cited by Les Echos.
The M3 and M4, which is expected to ship a "distant horizon to 2012-2013," explains the group suggesting that these models will be "aimed at emerging and peri-Europe Africa and Middle East, which gives meaning the choice of Spain as a place of production. " In total, according to PSA would provide Echos to invest a total of 1.06 billion euros in Vigo to produce the one hand, the M3 and M4 and on the other hand, the vehicle that will replace the compact MPV Citroen C4 Picasso , sold since 2004.
Finally, Vigo could take part in the development of clean car : According to Les Echos, it may indeed be on this site that will be produced the first electric vehicle models Berlingo and Partner that the plant already produces.